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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   1 Mar 2017 01:28 
 To:  graphitone       6 of 17 
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Yeah our qnap NAS defaulted to something similar, luckily I managed to intercept before it got out of hand.
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 From:  Manthorp   1 Mar 2017 10:58 
 To:  graphitone       7 of 17 
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Well that's a prize pain in the arse, to be sure.
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 From:  graphitone    1 Mar 2017 11:48 
 To:  Manthorp      8 of 17 
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Yep, and having looked at the photo gallery app it comes with, I'm gonna get rid of it, as I'll never use it. Same with the media server app. After a bit of googling I've found a way that is supposed to stop the task.  

It's a browser based thing that takes a while to generate all the thumbnails for the images (admittedly when the 'conversion' task finishes, this might be quicker) and it divides them all into pages showing something like 50 at a time by default. I've got some folders with hundreds of photos in and I don't want to have to click through 4/5 pages to get to the image I want. Plus who wants to look at a local folder of photos through a web page?



 


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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   1 Mar 2017 14:02 
 To:  graphitone       9 of 17 
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If it's the same as came on board the qnap, it uses imagemajick. Fair enough, until it starts to tackle >10 MB images on what is essentially a woefully underpowered pc.

Also, the gallery feature just suxors on a good day.
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 From:  Manthorp   1 Mar 2017 17:16 
 To:  graphitone       10 of 17 
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Good luck with that.  Why do they put bloaty shite on in the first place?
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 From:  graphitone    1 Mar 2017 19:48 
 To:  Manthorp     CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)      11 of 17 
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Got it sorted, in addition to removing the photo/media server apps, there's an option to remove the index itself and that's stopped the process.

I guess they lease/procure apps from 3rd parties and take a fee for including them in the software. HP used to be buggers for it, there's still a lot of crap on the desktop PCs we get at work, but nowhere near the amount they used to have, it'd take something like half a day to get rid of it all.


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 From:  CHYRON (DSMITHHFX)   1 Mar 2017 20:49 
 To:  graphitone       12 of 17 
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AFAIK the consumer NAS purveyors take open source, without thanks or attribution, and 'customize' it (aka fuck it up) with all kinds of half-assed, performance and stability -killing add-ons they think folks want.
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 From:  Serg (NUKKLEAR)   2 Mar 2017 13:02 
 To:  Manthorp     graphitone       13 of 17 
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I very much doubt that bit of tape does anything except keep the cable in place. So yeh, no worries.

Steve - they have all this crap on them so that they're out-of-the-box-useful for non-techie types. Good enough reason really, but a PITA.
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 From:  graphitone    3 Mar 2017 15:56 
 To:  Serg (NUKKLEAR)      14 of 17 
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Ace biscuits.

Now begins the long slog of ripping all our existing films n' that.


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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   3 Mar 2017 15:57 
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Just download. Don't bother wasting your time ripping, Jim will help.
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 From:  graphitone    3 Mar 2017 16:26 
 To:  ANT_THOMAS      16 of 17 
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I'm a bit anal about my media collection - ripped all my CDs a while back as FLAC and made sure all the album was correct. I recently started using Musicbee as a player and it pissed me off at first as it decided it was going to download what it thought I should have as album art rather than looking in the local folder for an image. I got this sorted after fiddling with the many many options it's got. :)

When it comes to films, I want a rip of the disc in high quality with the audio options configured to how I want them - you're always going to be chancing it with a download. I also get the option on whether or not to keep any extras, like audio commentary - something that's well worth it with the likes of Red Dwarf.  I appreciate it'll be quicker, but a DVD takes around 1.5 hours to rip, blu-rays maybe 2, but I can leave them going during the day/overnight while I'm doing other stuff. It's not an inconvenience, just time consuming.


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 From:  ANT_THOMAS   3 Mar 2017 16:37 
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If it's a full and complete rip then that definitely makes sense, rather than reencoding/compressing.

I don't like to download low quality rips, but I also don't want a full 30GB+ blu-ray rip taking up loads of space!
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